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1. A health resort near a spring or at the seaside.
4. The residue that remains when something is burned.
7. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
11. A rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion.
12. The cry made by sheep.
13. Any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses.
14. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
15. (prefix) Opposite or opposing or neutralizing.
16. A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who once had a culture characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy.
17. The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia.
20. A decree that prohibits something.
21. Virility drug (trade name Viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.
23. (Old Testament) The second patriarch.
26. A unit of dry measure used in Egypt.
27. The sixth month of the civil year.
30. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
35. A small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun.
37. A machine-readable version of a standard dictionary.
38. King of Saudi Arabia since 1982 (born in 1922).
39. The sense organ for hearing and equilibrium.
41. Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitressin) and also by nerve endings in the hypothalamus.
43. A plant hormone promoting elongation of stems and roots.
44. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet.
47. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal.
48. A compartment in front of a motor vehicle where driver sits.
49. The largest continent with 60% of the earth's population.
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1. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
2. A metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells.
3. A woman hired to suckle a child of someone else.
4. Of or relating to abasia (inability to walk).
5. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
6. Headdress that protects the head from bad weather.
7. A barrier constructed to contain the flow or water or to keep out the sea.
8. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
9. Common Indian weaverbird.
10. A Kwa language spoken in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
18. Evergreen Indian shrub with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning.
19. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers.
22. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
24. A state in north central United States.
25. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
28. A member of an agricultural people of southern India.
29. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
31. A son who has the same first name as his father.
32. Roman Emperor who succeeded Tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity.
33. An African river that flows northwest into Lake Chad.
34. A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River.
36. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
40. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
42. A light touch or stroke.
45. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
46. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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